Thursday, April 23, 2009

Two Pieces Of Good News (Neither Involving A Kitten)

Bonjour mes amis in Missouri.

Life As We Knew It is the first winner of the Truman Readers Award, selected by students sixth through eighth grade in Missouri. Notice how the link doesn't take you to some official announcement place. That's because I can't find an official announcement place. Actually, the place Google took me to last night was a blog by a librarian who didn't like LAWKI. So I waited until today to make the official (by me at least) announcement, by way of a librarian who is at least neutral on the subject.

I love that LAWKI is the first Truman Readers Award winner. It will always be the first (or last) book on the Truman Readers Award lists.

I hope students sixth through eighth grade in Missouri and elsewhere read French. Because my other piece of good news is that Pocket Jeunesse in France (bonjour France) will be publishing Life As We Knew It, The Dead And The Gone, and This World We Live In.

I don't want to think about what my life would be like right now if I hadn't watched Meteor that do nothing afternoon. Well, I can tell you this. I wouldn't be responding to your comments with a kitten nibbling on my sleeve.

Speaking of the kitten, which is all I speak of these days, I put a wonderful new photograph of him on the right side of the blog. He was checking out the collected works of Susan Beth Pfeffer as a possible nap site.

Groucho has my excellent New York Times Best Selling Author cap, which is chapeau enough for anybody. Although it's likely I'm the only person with a chapeau just like it.

Oh dear. This response to your two comments is about 5 times longer than your two comments. I am a chatty little creature!

Here's An Article From Publishers Weekly

Let's Not Forget

About Me

I decided to be a writer when I was in first grade and I've been fortunate to have lived my dream.
Among my books are Kid Power, About David, and The Year Without Michael and The Riddle Streak.
My 77th book, Blood Wounds was published in September 2011.
I'm also the author of Life As We Knew It, The Dead And The Gone, and This World We Live In. The fourth book in the series, The Shade Of The Moon, came out August 2013 and is now available in paperback.